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Durham Performing Arts Center

123 Vivian St, Durham, NC 27701
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Concession stands
Disabled access
In-house bar
The Durham Performing Arts Center opened in 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas, with a seating capacity of 2,712. Durham Perf... Read more
Year opened: 2008
Hadestown at Durham Performing Arts Center

Hadestown

Cleaning up during the 2018/19 awards season, plucky folk opera Hadestown garnered eight Tony Awards (including the coveted Tony for Best Musical), four Drama Desk Awards, six Outer Critics Circle Awards, and a Drama League Award. This came as no surprise given the production received much acclaim during both its Off-Broadway and Broadway runs, praised for its soaring imagination, vibrant retelling of a classic story, and a sumptuous score that evokes smoky New Orleans jazz and bubbling Americana-tinged folk. Don't miss out when the lauded musical hits the road on this hotly anticipated national tour!

Shucked at Durham Performing Arts Center

Shucked

Winner of two Drama Desk Awards! After an a-maize-ing premiere at Broadways Nederlander Theatre, the heartwarming story is heading on a national tour! With Nashville's top songwriting talents from Tony winner Robert Horn, in collaboration with Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, this musical offers a kernel of joy in these divided times, exploring how opening up to people and ideas we are wary of can be a beautiful process, uniting us in our similarities, not our differences. Aw Shucks!

The Book of Mormon at Durham Performing Arts Center

The Book of Mormon

With NINE Tony Awards - including Best Musical - a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and leading New York Times critic Ben Brantley himself calling it the "best new musical of the century", The Book of Mormon's 2011 debut was a pop culture moment. Still enjoying concurrent engagements in London's West End and on Broadway, the bad boy of musical theatre remains a top draw, leaving audiences either outraged or in pain from laughing to this day. Now heading out across the country, don't miss your chance to catch this modern classic. Just be prepared for the lewd, the crude, and downright naughty songs and antics along the way...

& Juliet at Durham Performing Arts Center

& Juliet

Nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best New Musical! If you've been waiting for a musical that features the hits of Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys and The Weeknd, then your day is finally here! Following its rapturous run on Broadway, & Juliet features music by songwriter extraordinaire Max Martin and now is heading out on tour! This new brand new tuner is bound to be a season highlight and unforgettable night out!

The Illusionists: Magic of the Holidays at Durham Performing Arts Center

The Illusionists: Magic of the Holidays

What could make the festive season even more magical than it already is..? Well the answer is actual magic of course! Get an extra helping of holiday hocus pocus when the Illusionists and their magnificently mind-boggling stage show take over! The box-office-record-breaking benders of time and space hit the road on their fifth annual holiday tour, bringing along a dazzling Broadway-meets-Las-Vegas display of mentalism, dance, sleight-of-hand tricks and old-school-meets-new-school magic.

A Christmas Carol at Durham Performing Arts Center

A Christmas Carol

Humbugs beware! This affectionate production brings Charles Dickens' classic tale to life once again for the 2024 Holiday season! First debuting in 2017 at London's iconic Old Vic Theatre, this adaptation from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne and Old Vic Artistic Director Matthew Warchus, has been praised for its joyful and warmhearted approach to the fable. Prepare to meet a brand new Scrooge (played by John Simm) in this gloriously festive reimagining!

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